{"id":2327,"date":"2013-09-19T12:22:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2013-09-19T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:23:04","slug":"war-and-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2327","title":{"rendered":"WAR AND THE BIBLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 22px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.usatoday.net\/news\/opinion\/_photos\/2011\/02\/27\/onreligionx-large.jpg\" width=\"488\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is interesting to note how the Bible has been used to not only justify war, but to justify a particular position of a war. \u00a0Two books I highly recommend in this regard are <em>The Civil War as Theological Crisis<\/em> by Mark Noll and <em>Sacred Scripture, Sacred War<\/em> by James Byrd. \u00a0I will be reviewing Byrd&#8217;s book in the upcoming weeks for Jesus Creed.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting to note how the Bible has been used to not only justify war, but to justify a particular position of a war. \u00a0Two books I highly recommend in this regard are The Civil War as Theological Crisis by Mark Noll and Sacred Scripture, Sacred War by James Byrd. \u00a0I will be reviewing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}